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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
1/ Some good news: We have a new article out in our EU in the Indo-Pacific (EUIP) special issue with @globalpolicy.bsky.social 'Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo-Pacific' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
1/ Some good news: We have a new article out in our EU in the Indo-Pacific (EUIP) special issue with @globalpolicy.bsky.social 'Reaching the Summit or a Plateau? The EU–New Zealand Relationship in the Indo-Pacific' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
1/5 Martin Holland & I have just had the overarching article for our special issue 'The EU in the Indo-Pacific' published in @globalpolicy.bsky.social . We conducted 111 interviews across eight locations to ask a fairly simple question: how is the EU's Indo-Pacific Strategy actually being received?
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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
1/5 Martin Holland & I have just had the overarching article for our special issue 'The EU in the Indo-Pacific' published in @globalpolicy.bsky.social . We conducted 111 interviews across eight locations to ask a fairly simple question: how is the EU's Indo-Pacific Strategy actually being received?
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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
1/6 Paul Bacon and I have a new paper out in The Pacific Review. We tackled a puzzle: how do you analyze something like the "Indo-Pacific" using Regional Security Complex Theory when it's way too big to be a normal region? 🧩 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NYX5Q...
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The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation: revising regional security Complex Theory for the age of the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is increasingly talked about as being a region. However, the sheer geographical size of the Indo-Pacific, which on a maximalist definition stretches from the east coast of Africa t...
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Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
🚨New online! Kelly and Doidge: "Aotearoa New Zealand, AUKUS, and the Anglosphere: navigating security identity amidst geostrategic change. Part of an upcoming special edn. on the "Anglosphere". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #InternationalRelations #AUKUS
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The concept of the Anglosphere, while exercising some debate within other of its members, is one that has little currency in the Aotearoa New Zealand context. Instead, it is AUKUS - the most recent project of three core Anglosphere states - that has framed discussion on issues to do with the concept. Utilising three historic ideational tenets of Aotearoa New Zealand's foreign policy - independent foreign policy, nuclear free policy, and a Pacific orientation - this article examines public debate around AUKUS as presented in print news media in the period from its launch in September 2021 through to December 2024. It demonstrates that, while a high number of articles was generated over the timeframe, discussion was largely driven by events external to Aotearoa New Zealand rather than by autochthonous interest. Further, while there has been some local discussion on joining Pillar Il of AUKUS, this has, to date, lacked in-depth analysis. Finally, it finds that the core ideational orientations of Aotearoa New Zealand foreign policy have had relatively little play in media considerations of AUKUS.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 29/08/2025
I'm thinking how Zhang Yimou's 2002 film Hero, visually stunning as it is, prefigured the later rise of tianxia-ism and civilizationism under Xi. His Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is another landmark production in Chinese civilizational discourse
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Global Studies Quarterly @gsqjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🚨New Article🚨 “Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens” by Nicholas Ross Smith Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens
Abstract. New Zealand's recent efforts to align more closely with the United States and Australia, including exploring the possibility of participating in
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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🧵 I have a new paper out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: "Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens" academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... TL;DR: NZ's "independent" foreign policy depends heavily on regional geopolitics. (1/8)
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Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens
Abstract. New Zealand's recent efforts to align more closely with the United States and Australia, including exploring the possibility of participating in
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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🧵 I have a new paper out in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: "Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's 'Independent' Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens" academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... TL;DR: NZ's "independent" foreign policy depends heavily on regional geopolitics. (1/8)
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Dependently Independent: Theorizing New Zealand's “Independent” Foreign Policy via a Neoclassical Realist Lens
Abstract. New Zealand's recent efforts to align more closely with the United States and Australia, including exploring the possibility of participating in
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Nicholas Ross SMITH @nrsmith.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
1/6 Paul Bacon and I have a new paper out in The Pacific Review. We tackled a puzzle: how do you analyze something like the "Indo-Pacific" using Regional Security Complex Theory when it's way too big to be a normal region? 🧩 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NYX5Q...
tandfonline.com
The Indo-Pacific as a macrosecuritized constellation: revising regional security Complex Theory for the age of the Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is increasingly talked about as being a region. However, the sheer geographical size of the Indo-Pacific, which on a maximalist definition stretches from the east coast of Africa t...
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